Solar · United Kingdom
Gwenlais Uchaf Farm
Revised4 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 4 January 2016
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 4 MW
- Status
- Revised
- Operator or applicant
- Renewable Developments
- Location
- Gwenlais Uchaf Farm, Pontlliw, West Glamorgan, SA4 9HB, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Swansea
- Planning application
- 2014/1620
- Appeal reference
- APP/B6855/A/15/3124709
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Timeline
- 29 October 2014 Planning application submitted
- 15 May 2015 Planning permission refused
- 10 August 2015 Appeal lodged
- 30 November 2015 Appeal refused
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names Gwenlais Uchaf Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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Incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 86 incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom, 59 of them fires, and 344 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Fire involving solar panels at a Market Harborough house spreads to an adjoining property
- Solar inverter fire on agricultural building in Shropshire
- Fire damages solar panel batteries in a Teignmouth garage
- Fire damages roof with one solar panel in The Charltons
- Solar panels on flat roof alight at terraced building in Newquay
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